Corpora: Phrase dictionaries

[Andrew Harley]

At 12:26 AM 01/02/2001 +0200, Pasi Tapio Tyrvainen wrote:
>
>I am looking for single and multilingual collocational resources,
>such as phrase and idiom dictionaries, preferably alligned with
>their counterparts / phrases in other languages phrase by phrase.
>
>What sources would you recommend? I assume there are also domain-specific
>collections or definitions available (e.g. controlled technical
>terminology)
>- how to find a listing/summary of those?
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>Pasi.Tyrvainen at jyu.fi

Cambridge dictionaries <http://www.cambridge.org/elt/reference/data.htm>
include:

* CIDE+ (with significant collocations highlighted in example sentences)
* Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms
* Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs
* The Word Routes/Selector series contains six parallel bilingual thesauri
(English with French, Spanish, Catalan, Greek, Italian, Portuguese).


Andrew Harley
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Cambridge International Dictionary of English on CD-ROM:
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